Last Friday of May. What's the trip? 👇

Memorial Day. For the ones who never came home — and for the ones who taught us how to live in the woods. Take a minute today. Drop the name of someone no longer with us who shaped the outdoorsman you are. 👇

@Richard Thompson Eighty years. Let that sink in. He taught me that the woods don't care how tough you think you are — they just want to see what you've got. Everything I know about the outdoors started with him. Love you, Daddy. Here's to more rivers, more sunrises, and more good days in the woods. Drop a 🎉 in the comments and help me celebrate 80 years of this good man. 👇

Here's something most folks don't know. The Okefenokee is the headwaters for two completely different rivers. Eighty percent of it drains south through the Suwannee, ending in the Gulf. The rest drains east through the St. Marys to the Atlantic. One swamp. Two rivers. Two oceans. Where's a place you've been that felt like the start of something bigger? 👇

and there's a skills moment in this one worth talking about here. Okefenokee, Minnie's Lake. Water was the lowest we'd ever paddled it, gators stacked up the whole route, and we get to the platform — and the tent poles are sitting at the house. Two weekends back we'd pulled them out on the St. Mary's and never put them back in the bag. No poles, no store, no second chance. We had a roof structure and a length of paracord. Built a frame off what was already there and made the tent stand. It held the night. That's the whole thing about making do — you don't get mad, you look at what you've actually got and you build from that. The film shows the rig. Watch it on the channel: Part two next Sunday. Stay rugged.